Dowdell v. City of Apopka

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · Decided 1983-02-28

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VANCE, Circuit Judge: The situs of this case is the small city of Apopka, Florida located in the fern and foliage growing region north of Orlando. More specifically, it is the poor, geographically separate, black community of that city. The plaintiffs (appellees and cross-appellants here) are a Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(2) class comprising the black residents of Apopka “who are, or have been, subjected to the discriminatory provisi…

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